PEOPLE AND NUMBERS (67)
This term describes the study of human population statistics, including characteristics like birth rates, death rates, and aging.
What is Demography?
Found historically along the St. Lawrence River area, this unique agricultural land system features narrow, elongated properties ensuring every farmer has river access.
What is the Long Lot system?
Direct extraction of natural resources, such as mining iron ore or harvesting lumber, falls into this industry category.
What is a Primary industry?
This massive historic event occurred in Canada in 1992 because northern Atlantic fish populations dropped drastically due to overfishing.
What is the Cod Ban?
To power its electrical grid, the province of Manitoba relies almost entirely on this specific renewable energy practice.
What is Hydro-electricity?
A country has a birth rate of 15 per 1,000 and a death rate of 7 per 1,000. Its natural increase rate is this percentage. (Hint: Subtract the rates, then divide by 10 to get a percentage).
What is 0.8%? (15 - 7 = 8 per 1,000, which equals 0.8 per 100).
Often abbreviated as the CBD, this specific commercial land use zone forms the commercial and geographic heart of a major city.
What is the Central Business District?
Manufacturing raw materials into finished consumer goods, like turning wood pulp into paper products, belongs to this industry sector.
What is a Secondary industry?
While clear-cutting removes all trees from a patch, this highly costly logging process requires workers to carefully select and cut only specific mature trees.
What is a Selective cut?
To convert solar radiation directly into functional electrical energy, solar power grids use this technical process.
What is Photovoltaic?
Using the "Rule of 70," if a developing country has a remarkably high population growth rate of 3.5%, it will take this many years for its total population to double.
This type of economic activity, such as a local hair salon or convenience store, circulates money strictly within the community rather than bringing new money in from the outside.
What is a Non-basic industry?
This industry sector doesn't handle physical products but instead provides highly specialized, knowledge-based services, research, and computer development.
What is a Quaternary industry?
This specific type of mining requires constructing tunnels to extract valuable minerals located far beneath the Earth's surface.
What is Underground mining?
Trapped directly above crude oil deposits, this non-renewable gas fossil fuel consists primarily of methane.
What is Natural gas?
This specific metric measures the portion of a population that is not in the workforce (typically children under 15 and seniors over 65) who must be supported by the working-age population.
What is the Dependency load?
In Canadian urban planning, expressways and arterial roads handle massive amounts of long-distance traffic, whereas these specific pathways are built exclusively for pedestrians.
What are Walkways (or paths)?
A factory chooses its site near a large highway junction and a shipping port to optimize this specific business location factor.
What is Transportation?
Surrounded by massive safety dykes to protect local rivers, these specialized ponds store toxic waste rock slurry after ore milling is complete.
What are Tailing ponds?
Crucial to primary sectors like mining, this specific mode of transport is essential to Canada because it moves massive bulks of heavy goods across vast overland distances.
What is Rail transportation?
If a country's population pyramid has an incredibly wide, heavy base that rapidly narrows toward the top, it indicates that the nation is currently at this level of economic development.
While "hinterland" refers to sparsely populated areas rich in resources, this term describes the minimum number of consumers required to keep a specific business or service functional.
What is the Threshold population?
If a manufacturing plant chooses its location solely because the founder happened to grow up in that specific town, it is an example of this unique location factor.
What is Circumstance?
To eliminate the cycle of overfishing, governments give financial support like cheap fuel to commercial fleets, creating a structural problem known by this term.
What are Harmful fishing subsidies?
In international shipping, the Port of Vancouver is critically vital to the Canadian economy because it handles the majority of the nation's trade with this oceanic region.
What is Pacific trade?